Passengers aboard a flight from New Orleans to Washington, D.C., witnessed a mid-air collision involving a Blackhawk helicopter and an American Airlines jet near Reagan National Airport.
Some passengers felt a little uneasy at BWI Thurgood Marshall on Thursday as they grappled with the news from officials that there were no survivors in the Flight 5342 crash in the Potomac.
As many as 60 passengers and four crew members were aboard American Eagle Flight 5342, and the Black Hawk helicopter was carrying three soldiers. There were no survivors.
The archbishops of Washington and Baltimore offered prayers on Thursday after a deadly plane crash near downtown Washington, D.C.
Feller, who served as an instructor pilot for the D.C. National Guard, said he had several rules for new pilots to avoid such collisions. He warned them to stay below the mandated 200-foot ceiling for helicopters. And he urged them to be on guard for planes landing on 3-3 because they could be difficult to spot.
A 3D rendering shows the approximate altitude and paths of the plane and helicopter moments before the collision.
A tragic crash occurred near Reagan National Airport, with a jet and an Army helicopter colliding in the Potomac River, leaving all on board feared dead.
After a passenger plane and military helicopter collided Wednesday night over the Potomac River in Washington, emergency responders from Maryland aided rescue efforts, and Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport received some planes that had been bound for Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
Baltimore County figure skater Ting Cui was competing at U.S. Nationals in Wichita, Kansas, this week and knew several victims in the deadly plane crash in Washington, D.C. “The figure skating community is small,
An American Airlines jet and a U.S. Army helicopter plunged into the Potomac River after a midair collision Wednesday night near Reagan National Airport outside Washington, D.C.
The deadly crash this week between an Army Black Hawk helicopter and a passenger jet that killed 67 has raised questions about the increasingly congested air traffic in the Washington region, as a
We are learning more about some of the 67 victims aboard the American Eagle plane and Black Hawk helicopter that collided near Washington, D.C.